The prince’s charities said they had subjected Mr Vardanyan’s donations to robust due diligence and no red flags had been raised.

The web of more than 70 offshore companies is exposed in a leak of 1.3 million confidential bank transactions to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of east European investigative journalists who shared information and documents with the BBC and the Guardian.

Between 2009 and 2011 the Prince’s Charities Foundation received three payments, adding up to $202,000 via a now-defunct bank in Lithuania.

The leaked bank data show the last of the payments went to an account held by the Prince’s Charities Foundation.

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